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9 P.M. (A&E, History, Lifetime) BONNIE & CLYDE Bruce Beresford puts his spin on the doomed love affair of the 1930s gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in this two-night mini-series starring Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch. William Hurt portrays Frank Hamer, the retired Texas Ranger who led the team that killed Parker and Barrow in 1934. Holly Hunter (above left, with Ms. Grainger) plays Parker’s mother. “Mr. Beresford (‘Tender Mercies,’ ‘Driving Miss Daisy’) gives the sentimental material a corresponding autumnal glow, and there are sweeping, lovely images of Texas fields under big skies, a shimmering crescent moon and an oil refinery sparkling in the night,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. Comparing Mr. Beresford’s work to Arthur Penn’s 1967 film with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, Mr. Hale adds: “In the end, ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ has the one thing in common with ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ that you’d expect: the fusillade of machine-gun fire, and Barrow and Parker’s bodies twitching and bursting as they’re torn apart. While it doesn’t have the force of Penn’s brutal choreography, it’s a surprisingly graphic scene for basic cable. Less surprising is a gratuitous, last-minute plot twist that serves to cement the film’s portrayal of Barrow as a tragic, star-crossed hero. Apparently, only the misunderstood die young.”

2 P.M. (LMN) WINTER’S BONE (2010) Jennifer Lawrence, below, received her first Oscar nomination for her role as Ree Dolly, a teenager living in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri who goes in search of her meth-cooking father after he puts up the family home to cover his bail and disappears. But her efforts to find him place her in a terrible dilemma: either betray the code of silence that keeps her clan proudly on the wrong side of the law or face destitution. John Hawkes plays her uncle, whose silent menace soon erupts into violence, though he’s more compassionate than most. The harshness in Debra Granik’s “regional-realist morality tale,” based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, “is not there to illuminate a sociological condition,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “Something more primal, almost Greek in its archaic power, is at stake in ‘Winter’s Bone,’ and its visual and emotional starkness do not feel like simple badges of authenticity.”

5:30 P.M. (Ovation) FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994) Hugh Grant portrays an Englishman with a fear of commitment who happens to be the favored best man among the marrying kinds of his circle in this comedy, directed by Mike Newell and written by Richard Curtis. Andie MacDowell is the American beauty who just may change his mind — if only his friends (played by Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah and Charlotte Coleman, among others) would stop getting in his way. Writing in The Times, Janet Maslin compared this “multitiered confection with a romantic spirit and an enchantingly pretty veneer” to a wedding cake, adding that it was “elegant, festive and very, very funny.”

8 P.M. (Discovery) NAKED AND AFRAID: DOUBLE JEOPARDY Two pairs of unclothed strangers must work together in a Panamanian rain forest. In “Dude, You’re Screwed,” a new series at 10, five survivalists take turns trying to endure extreme conditions unscathed.

8 P.M. (ABC Family) HOLIDAZE (2013) Jennie Garth plays a retail executive who abandons her jet-setting holiday plans to persuade residents of her tiny hometown to allow the construction of a discount store. Cameron Mathison is the childhood sweetheart who infiltrates her life after she takes a spill and wakes up in an alternate universe in which she married him.

9 P.M. (Showtime) HOMELAND Brody (Damian Lewis, below) has difficulty staying on course in Tehran when he encounters a ghost from his past. In “Masters of Sex,” at 10, Masters (Michael Sheen) and Libby (Caitlin FitzGerald) prepare for a presentation while Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) and DePaul (Julianne Nicholson) discuss the importance of the Pap smear.